IT IS one thing talking about grand regeneration plans for landmark city centre buildings – but turning them into reality, as we have seen so often in Liverpool, is another thing entirely.

Developers Urban Splash have delivered time and time again in the North West, but it is extremely frustrating that we are still waiting for the company to get to work on converting the grade II listed fo rmer ABC cinema in Lime Street.

It announced its big plans for this most central of sites back in 2007, and it was thought that the redevelopment work would be completed by the middle of this year.

And yet Liverpool city council still hasn’t even received a planning application.

Yes, times have been tough but the city of Liverpool, as a whole, surely can’t be expected to be kept waiting and waiting for promised developments to materialise.

There is, regrettably, no concrete news on this and other sites awaiting conversion – but it is imperative that action plans are revealed soon. We simply cannot be left hanging on.